222 Inscription from JVdrnmil. [Nov. 



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In the name of God, the merciful, the clement! There is no God but Allah; 

 Muhammad is Allah's Prophet. In the 23i'd year of the reign of M u h a m m a d Shah 

 Padishah i Ghazi — may God lengthen his kingdom and rule !— in 1154 A. H. [A. D. 1741-2], 

 the slave Mir Wajlh uddin Khan, whose title is M i r J a 1 a 1 u d d i n Khan, 

 son of the late Mir Jalaluddin Khan, of A'grah, son of Mir Sayyid Muhammad, built this 

 Sarai, for the comfort of travellers, for the future and the present a pious deed done to God. 

 May people remember (the builder) with a pious wish ! And blessings upon Muhammad 

 and his house and all his companions ! 



Under the superintendence of Sada Shiv Narayan. 



Na'rnaul, S. W. ofDihli. 

 Mr. Delmerick has sent me a reading of the following inscription from 

 the tomb of Ibrahim Khan Sur, the grandfather of the emperor Sher Shah. 



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1. If any one asks you who made this building, give him the answer if thou knowest 

 the secret : 



2. This dome, whose foundation is the highest heaven, was built by the king of the 

 country, Sher [S h a h], the victorious ruler, 



3. The chief of chiefs, the lord of the seven realms, whose sword surpasses the flash 

 of the lightning. 



4. Pari d,* son of Hasan Sur, son of Ibrahim, ordered a beautiful vault 

 to be built over the grave of his grandfather. 



5. If you ask me who was the superintendent, (I say it was) Aba B a k r, son of 

 Shaikh Ahmad, the JNiyazi. 



6. If I use the general term, I may call him a Niyazi, but if I use the special term, 

 I must call him a Kiudi, and this reflects honor on his pure character. 



* Sher Shah's name was Fariduddm. 



